Apart from a few magnificent examples, most of the lions here are the migrants, exiles and refugees that Rembrandt encountered in Amsterdam during a century in which some 60 per cent of the city’s ...

From the October 2026 issue of Apollo. Art Basel Paris is the smallest fair in the Art Basel roster, but it still dominates the French capital. This month more than 200 exhibitors of modern and ...

Catholic Spain contained one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe in the Middle Ages – until their expulsion by decree in 1492. Featuring images of both co-existence and persecution, this show ...

Cl assical art is a heritage of loss. The great majority of the works of art produced in ancient Greece and Rome no longer survive. Paintings have rotted, crumbled or burned. Marble statues were ...

Ye Ying is a leading Chinese contemporary art and cultural critic, and has been Editor-in-Chief of The Art Newspaper China since its foundation in 2013. Previously, she was the Arts Editor at Chinese ...

Long after David Sassoon’s descendants had entered the highest echelons of English society, their collecting reflected the family’s ties to the Middle East, India and China As Nahson and Da Costa ...

Hidden somewhere in the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam is a remarkable bronze medallion featuring a noble-looking man holding a book. His halo and beard make him resemble Jesus – but an Islamic invocation ...

The apple originated in the wild. But thousands of varieties have been cultivated over the centuries – and their many associations have been taken up by artists with relish. The apple can mean just ...

The ‘scrying glass’ belonging to the Elizabethan magician and astrologer John Dee, now in the British Museum, has long been regarded as one of the most enigmatic Tudor artefacts. While it was ...

‘Ah! This is the inscrutable Bithynian!’ So Tennyson exclaimed when he caught sight of a bust of Antinous while strolling through the British Museum with a young Edmund Gosse, who recorded the episode ...

On 29 April, ‘Eric Gill: The Body’ opens at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in West Sussex. The exhibition will celebrate the sculptor’s art, but also promises to address those distressing details ...

Success and fame, if they come to an artist at all, usually arrive by one of two routes. Either their work suddenly captures the moment, chiming with current cultural trends or concepts; or else an ...